Physiology or Medicine

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard and Eric Kandel for their discoveries concerning “signal transduction in the nervous system”. Carlsson discovered that dopamine is a transmitter, Greengard found that dopamine and other “slow” transmitters act by protein phosphorylation, and Kandel…

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    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001             Scientific Advisors, Professors at Karolinska Institutet: Anita Aperia – Paediatrics Hans Jörnvall – Physiological Chemistry, Secretary of the Nobel Assembly Sten Lindahl – Anesthesiology, Chairman of the Nobel Committee Ralf Pettersson – Molecular Biology Anders Zetterberg – Tumour Cytology…

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Biographical

Marshall Warren Nirenberg was born in New York City on April 10th, 1927, the son of Harry and Minerva Nirenberg. The family moved to Orlando, Florida in 1939. He early developed an interest in biology. In 1948 he received a B. Sc. degree, and in 1952, a M. Sc. degree in Zoology from the University…

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Biographical

My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur. After the 1930s recession they moved to Wembley, North-West London, where my father worked as a mechanic in the local H.J.…

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